EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone.
The Instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
- Crash Course Books
- Hardcover
- March 2025
- 9780525556572
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$28.00
About John Green
John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. John serves on the board of trustees for the global health nonprofit Partners In Health and spoke at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Fight to End Tuberculosis.
John lives with his family in Indianapolis. You can visit him online at johngreenbooks.com or join the TB Fighters working to end tuberculosis at tbfighters.org
Praise
“Phenomenal.” –Chris Hayes, “Why Is This Happening?” podcast
“[Everything Is Tuberculosis is] the most compelling book I’ve read in a long time; I consumed it in a single afternoon and have been thinking ever since about the profound ways tuberculosis has shaped American history.” –New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Makkai to WBEZ Chicago
“Through Henry’s journey, Green forces readers to confront the deep inequalities within global healthcare, shedding light on the shame, isolation, and hopelessness that often accompany a TB diagnosis—and, by extension, the broader challenges many of us face in trying to maintain our health.” –Isaac Fitzgerald, TODAY.com
“Everything Is Tuberculosis makes an urgent case for the kind of global health initiatives that the U.S. has been turning against. It’s also witty, cogent and achingly beautiful – everything we’ve come to expect from the writer of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars.” –James Mastromarino, NPR’s Here & Now
“Illuminating and surprisingly hopeful.” –Kelsey Weekman, Yahoo Entertainment